去年到欧洲出了一趟差，增援兄弟单位，来回共三天。而且行前准备周期极短，很匆忙，虽然只飞了八小时左右，但感觉挺折腾的。抵达后先去单位办理进门卡。
办卡要排队，排在我后面的是英国同事。
我看他跟我差不多，一脸迷蒙，像在梦游，于是问他：
Me: Are you alright?
Him: Yes, I suppose. And you?
Me: I'm totally spaced out.
Him: I know, same here. Discombobulated.
我脑海里立即浮现出 Olivia Colman 的形象：
为什么呢？
因为在这部电视剧里
Colman 饰演的情报官最后抓到了大坏蛋 Hugh Laurie (I mean the badass arms dealer played by him)，她对垂头丧气的 Laurie 说：怎么样？铁证如山，赖也赖不掉！瞧你那样儿，还故作镇定，其实已经 discombobulated 了吧!
无独有偶，我写的那本小书里，也用过这个词：
用 confuse 或 disorientate 或 fluster 取代这个词，如何？也行，但戏谑的语气就没了。
So, next time I take a long-haul flight, descend from the clouds with my head populated by a nebulous haze and mope around on foreign soil in a bleary-eyed daze, I'll remember my discombobulated English colleague, the discombobulated Hugh Laurie... and my dog's discombobulated victims.
I'll then perk up and start eyeing the exotic peculiarities in wide-eyed wonderment... all thanks to this comically looking, ridiculously long and endearingly bombastic word:
Discombobulated!
